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1 The XLIFF TC s Summary of the First XLIFF Symposium Christian Lieske Input/Contributions so far: Bryan Schnabel, Lucía Morado Vázquez, Dimitra Anastasiou Draft 08 October 2010

Visual Impressions More (along with additional material) soon at http://www.

2 Visual Impressions More (along with additional material) soon at 1 st XLIFF Symposium, 22 Sept 2010, XLIFF TC Summary/ Page 2

3 The XLIFF TC s Summary General Takeaways Preparation Participation Contributions Critical Voices General Input to Our Work Specific Input to Our Work Other 1 st XLIFF Symposium, 22 Sept 2010, XLIFF TC Summary/ Page 3

4 General Thanks for the Preparation To the minds who invented the Symposium Lucía Morado Vázquez, Dimitra Anastasiou, and Reinhard Schäler for suggesting the event. To the Local Organizers at Limerick's Carlton Castletroy Park hotel For everything including the dinner For accommodating last minutes changes (e.g. absences of Tony O'Dowd and lacking time for Andrzej Zydron) Lucía Morado Vázquez, Dimitra Anastasiou, Eoin Ó Conchúir, Karl Kelly, Geraldine Harrahill To the Scientific Committee For suggesting a programme scheme that encompassed a key note, presentations, panel discussions, posters, a pencha kucha (series of 7 mintues talks) For reviewing the submissions Bryan Schnabel (XLIFF TC Chair, Tektronix), Yves Savourel (ENLASO Corporation), David Filip (Moravia IT a.s.), Jesús Torres del Rey (Universidad de Salamanca), Reinhard Schäler (Localisation Research Centre), Dimitra Anastasiou (Localisation Research Centre), Lucía Morado Vázquez (Localisation Research Centre) To the submitters of proposals For submitting more than 20 proposals For accepting the offer to talk (most accepted and were able to travel to Limerick) 1 st XLIFF Symposium, 22 Sept 2010, XLIFF TC Summary/ Page 4

5 General Participation More than 70 participants attended the first ever XLIFF-only event Quite a number did not just attend the symposium since it was a pre-conference event to the 15th LRC Conference Attendees came from any of our planet's continent is an indicator for XLIFF's proliferation 1 st XLIFF Symposium, 22 Sept 2010, XLIFF TC Summary/ Page 5

6 General Contributions (1/2) Welcome address: Reinhard Schäler, director of the LRC Key note: Bryan Schnabel, current chair of the XLIFF Technical Committee 5 plenary sessions, 2 panels, 4 parallel sessions, 5 short presentations, 2 posters Detailed XLIFF knowledge reflected in all talks XLIFF shortcomings discussed open and the constructively High level of audience participation Intense, sometimes heated questions/discussions Outreach work Finished e.g. a text in the "Director's Column" from JoAnn Hackos, and an LRC Press-Release LRC Lucía Morado Vázquez Planned e.g. the photos, presentations and videos soon available on the Symposium webpage at DITA presentation qualified as Interoperability event 1 st XLIFF Symposium, 22 Sept 2010, XLIFF TC Summary/ Page 6

7 General Contributions (2/2) Type Presenter(s) Title Plenary Sessions Reinhard Schäler (Welcome) Panels Bryan Schnabel (Keynote speaker) Asanka Wasala, Dag Schmidtke, Reinhard Schäler Asgeir Frimannsson, Christian Lieske JoAnn Hackos, Bryan Schnabel, Rodolfo Raya Moderator: Christian Lieske; Panellists: Asgeir Frimannsson, Christian Lieske, Stefan Pries, Friedel Wolff Moderator: David Filip; Panellists: Gábor Ugray, Lorcan Ryan, Heiko Rölke, Dag Schmidtke, David Filip XLIFF's Place in the Community XLIFF and LCX Format: A Comparison Next Generation XLIFF: Simplify - Clarify - and Extend DITA and XLIFF: A Great Marriage Minimal and modular XLIFF XLIFF metadata throughout workflows Parallel Sessions Niall Murphy The route to XLIFF adoption in Oracle Felix Sasaki, Christian Lieske Martin Beuster, Gábor Ugray XLIFF and ITS: A secret marriage XLIFF as a potential TM exchange format? Steve Dept, Andrea Ferrari, Britta Upsing, Heiko Rölke Case study: XLIFF in a large-scale international OECD-study Short Presentations Micah Bly XLIFFs in Theory and in Reality Shirley Coady Friedel Wolff Derek Coffey Increasing Quality in the Translation Process through the Integration of XLIFF with Advanced Leveraging Translation Memory and Terminology XLIFF from a volunteer's point of view GlobalSight as a case study in the deployment and use of XLIFF as an interchange format Thomas Vackier The problem of extensibility in XLIFF 1.2 Posters Jörg Schütz, Alexandra Weissgerber Localising Business Process Repository Content Naoto Nishio, Ian O Keeffe, J.J. Collins 1 st XLIFF Symposium, 22 Sept 2010, XLIFF TC Summary/ Page 7 Taxonomy of localisation services with XLIFF

8 Takeaways Critical Voices No tool supports all of what's in XLIFF 1.2 (implied that XLIFF 1.2 is too feature-rich, and unwieldy) Get XLIFF 2.0 to us rather sooner than later 1 st XLIFF Symposium, 22 Sept 2010, XLIFF TC Summary/ Page 8

9 Takeaways General Input to Our Work Acceptance and a desire for conformance/compliance guidelines Vast support for modular and minimal architecture Wide range, differences of opinions on what exactly should be in the *core module(s)* Pleas for backward compatibility Extensibility needs to be examined and perhaps diminished or Better mechanism to include binary information should be explored Wide range of usage scenarios 1 st XLIFF Symposium, 22 Sept 2010, XLIFF TC Summary/ Page 9

10 Takeaways Specific Input to Our Work (1/2) Type Title Takeaways Plenary Sessions XLIFF's Place in the Community XLIFF and LCX Format: A Comparison Input to be gathered via Next Generation XLIFF: Simplify - Clarify - and Extend Panels XLIFF as a potential TM exchange format? Case study: XLIFF in a large-scale international OECDstudy DITA and XLIFF: A Great Marriage Minimal and modular XLIFF XLIFF metadata throughout workflows Parallel Sessions The route to XLIFF adoption in Oracle XLIFF and ITS: A secret marriage 1 st XLIFF Symposium, 22 Sept 2010, XLIFF TC Summary/ Page 10

11 Takeaways Specific Input to Our Work (2/2) Type Title Takeaways Short Presentation s XLIFFs in Theory and in Reality Increasing Quality in the Translation Process through the Integration of XLIFF with Advanced Leveraging Translation Memory and Terminology Input to be gathered via XLIFF from a volunteer's point of view GlobalSight as a case study in the deployment and use of XLIFF as an interchange format The problem of extensibility in XLIFF 1.2 Posters Localising Business Process Repository Content Taxonomy of localisation services with XLIFF 1 st XLIFF Symposium, 22 Sept 2010, XLIFF TC Summary/ Page 11

12 Takeaways Other Proposal to have additional symposiums (next in Poland, and we even heard somebody mention Bangalore in subsequent years) 1 st XLIFF Symposium, 22 Sept 2010, XLIFF TC Summary/ Page 12

XLIFF. An XML standard for localisation Tony Jewtushenko Oracle Peter Reynolds Bowne Global Solutions. Tuesday, November 12, 2002 LRC 2002 Conference

XLIFF. An XML standard for localisation Tony Jewtushenko Oracle Peter Reynolds Bowne Global Solutions. Tuesday, November 12, 2002 LRC 2002 Conference XLIFF An XML standard for localisation Tony Jewtushenko Oracle Peter Reynolds Bowne Global Solutions Agenda What is XLIFF, Who is involved and Why XLIFF s development since the LRC 2001 conference XLIFF